Entering the flower hall, as soon as everyone took their seats, Wang Chengen asked impatiently: "Is there a plan for Penglai Hou to aid Jinzhou?" ”

"Wang Gonggong and first use tea, although Jiannu is an inner line of combat, but it is not without a trace, Shandong and Liaodong across the sea, if my Shandong soldiers take the land to help, it is really reluctant to seek the near also, in the view of Ben Hou, this battle I Ming obscene set nine sides of the elite, the East will not dare to despise our army, will inevitably be the whole division to the west, its grain and grass are transported in Xiping Fort, if the commander with a strange soldier to kill, the East Capture grain road cut off, Jinzhou will be as stable as Mount Tai."

Li Xingzhi pointed to the huge map of Liaodong hanging in the flower hall and talked eloquently, as if everything was under control.

At both ends of the Guanning army, the towns on the nine borders, all of them were people who avoided the war and protected themselves, and the ministers who colluded with the Jin merchants were all over the country, and Li Xingzhi naturally did not dare to state his intention to attack Shenyang to Wang Chengen.

"Penglai Hou, Xiping Fort is west of the Liao River, it is a plain area, after Jiannu broke through, the city and the enemy tower were destroyed by the Eight Banners, whether the soldiers and horses of Shandong Town can block the reinforcements of the Eastern Captives, if they are trapped by the enemy, how is it good?"

After Zhu Youzhen ascended the throne, the military disasters continued, and the soldiers were used almost year after year, and Wang Chengen, Chongzhen's personal eunuch, still had some understanding of military affairs under the influence of his ears and eyes.

"Don't worry, although the soldiers are strong and strong, but there are also 20,000 elite soldiers in this town, although the attack is insufficient, it is okay to hold Xiping Fort, but there are many eyes and ears in the court, in order to prevent leakage of news, can the prince only show it to His Majesty?"

Even if it is a false statement, Li Xingzhi is not at ease with the courtiers of the Ming Dynasty, and the slave chief Hongtai is a hero-like figure, if he detects the clues of the movement of the Jingbei Army from his lies, then his plan may be miscalculated.

After all, there were many ministers in the DPRK and the Jin merchants, and the Jin merchants were inextricably linked with the Manchu regime. In the Manchu documents seen in later generations, the Gyeonggi information provided by the Jin merchants for the Later Jin Dynasty was detailed to the names of the guards at each pass, the number of soldiers and equipment, and even a considerable number of military intelligence reports.

In the early years of Chongzhen, the famine brought by the Xiaoice River period had completely collapsed the people's livelihood in the northeast, and although the population of the Houjin ruling area was only 700,000, the people were easy to eat, and the price of rice was as high as 821 stones, and cloth was 221 horses.

The Jin merchants, who were attached to the Later Jin regime, provided the slave chieftain Hongtai with all the gunpowder, eighty percent of the grain, and more than sixty percent of the metal.

Through the Jin merchant group, the Manchu Qing Dynasty could turn the looted property, antiques, and gold and silver into grain to feed the hundreds of people who had been taken captive, so no one could guarantee that if their plan to run Liaodong was revealed to the imperial court, it would not be passed on to the ears of the slave chief Hongtai through the Jin merchants.

"Penglai Hou rest assured, this matter comes from your mouth, and it is beyond the ears of our family and Your Majesty, and it will definitely ensure the suddenness of the attack of Shandong Town!"

Li Xingzhi can guarantee the cutting off of the grain route in Dongyu, Wang Chengen is naturally very happy, he is also considered to be rough in military affairs, so he naturally knows the consequences of cutting off grain.

If it is really as Li Xingzhi said, then the Ming Dynasty will definitely be able to complete its work in one battle, and solve the Jiannu that has plagued several generations of kings of the Ming Dynasty in one fell swoop, and Emperor Chongzhen, who has served him to death, will also become the great emperor who led the Ming Dynasty to a prosperous era.

In order to entertain Wang Chengen, Li Xingzhi ordered all the main officials of Laizhou to accompany him to the military marshal's mansion.

Only the superintendent Zhang Cheng was familiar with sea ships in Dengzhou Shuishi Town, and Laizhou Mansion and Dengzhou City were nearly 200 miles apart, so he could not return in time.

Zhang Cheng is the eunuch of the Jingbei Army personally selected by Wang Chengen, and Wang Chengen is the prime minister of the Ming Dynasty, the first person among the eunuchs.

Li Xingzhi was also a little speechless to Zhang Cheng, after this guy came to Leiden, he didn't ask anything about the military and political affairs of the Jingbei Army, and soaked in the barracks all day long.

Wang Chengen didn't care, in his opinion, the person he promoted, this is the courage to do anything, when he crusaded against Zhang Xianzhong, he was more able to go into battle to kill the thief, and he killed the first thief, and a number of thieves, which was to raise his face, even the emperor was full of praise for this guy, saying that if Zhang Cheng could learn the art of war of Penglai Hou, he would not be able to hang the seal in the future.

The banquet arranged by the military marshal's mansion was naturally very rich, and Wang Chengen was also quite pleased because of Li Xingzhi's edict, and received the imperial court's decree to reward him.

Although he had some opinions on the emperor's dismissal of Xue Guoguan, since the emperor had a holy decree, Wang Chengen had no way to intervene.

Li Xingzhi's side is a ghost, so he flatters Wang Chengen.

After the banquet, Li Xingzhi took out a silver ticket of 5,000 taels from his sleeve pocket, which was the Cheng Yi of the prince's decree.

Wang Chengen didn't stay long, for a while Kaifeng asked him to announce the decree, and the second was eager to return to Beijing to return to Chongzhen, so he only stayed in Laizhou for two days, and then hurriedly set off.

Li Xingzhi did not stay in Laizhou for a long time, Wang Chengen just left with his front foot, and he went to Dengzhou with his back foot.

In this expedition to Liao, Li Xingzhi has already made it clear that Li Rui's third town and Li Dingguo's old base camp will go on the expedition, so Li Xingzhi still has to inspect the training of the soldiers at sea.

The third town is okay, in the end, he followed Su Guodong through the sea several times, Li Dingguo's base camp is either Shaanxi soldiers or Huguang soldiers, whether it can adapt to the sea march is the top priority of this operation, if the army loses a good opportunity to enter the army because of seasickness, it will not be a failure.

As soon as Li Xingzhi arrived in Zhaoyuan, the secretary of Jiaoao City raised Qian Anning, but he brought a Japanese man to intercept Li Xingzhi.

"Little Tanaka Saburo meets General Mingguo."

"Are you a Wako?"

Li Xingyi looked at Saburo Tanaka, who knelt down in front of him with a puzzled face, and the words of the Ming official were more fluent than the Han people in some places

"The general of the Ming Kingdom, the general of the small Sado Domain, has come to communicate with the general about exchanging silver ingots for copper coins on the orders of the lord of my family."

Sado Domain is actually a small island in the north of the Wa Kingdom, with a population of only a few thousand, because the smuggling fleet of the Ming Dynasty often docked in Sado to replenish supplies, so the local people are very familiar with the language of the Ming Dynasty, and there are not a few people who are proficient in the official language of the Ming Dynasty.

This time, the Jiaoao City Boji went to the Wa Kingdom and brought a small amount of Ming copper coins, which made the lord of the Sado Domain, Kamishi Shoichi, see a business opportunity.

Because the Japanese did not mint money themselves, and overseas trade was developing day by day, a large number of smuggled materials were transferred out through the Japanese state, so the money shortage of the Japanese country was still very serious at this time.

Generally always fake money, about two taels of silver, and silver for the Ming is a scarce item, the purchase of the Ming Dynasty's money, sold to the inland if the gross profit is nearly 100 percent, if you remove the bribes and transportation needs, earn 60 percent is no pressure, so Tanaka Saburo, who is proficient in Chinese, was sent to Shandong.